This is all covered in UK, but I hope to encourage people here by saying that there is no reason home cooks shouldn’t regularly be curing their own bacon.  Especially given such wonderful era in Louis vuitton handbags, a time when I can go to my farmer’s market in this rust belt city and buy belly of a hand-raised pig. You will have to mail order pink salt, sodium nitrite, but it’s very inexpensive if you get it from butcher-packer.com. Strictly speaking you don’t need it for safety in this case, but the pancetta won’t have quite the same flavor and it will turn gray when you cook it.To wet your whistle, try John Adams’ “berry shrub” (blackberry or raspberry juice, sugar, brandy and rum), James Madison’s favorite whiskey sours (lemons, water, sugar, and aged bourbon whiskey, 100 proof), or a fine wine from Monticello.

If Tex-Mex is not your thing, try Harry Truman’s tuna and noodle casserole with white cheese sauce and Pat Nixon’s baked stuffed tomatoes. If this seems too healthy, indulge a little with the Carter family’s peanut refrigerator cake or Warren Harding’s favorite bourbon balls. In moderation, of course.Or maybe you want to celebrate the inauguration by using recipes from the time of our Founding Fathers, such as Martha Washington’s “Great Cake,” Thomas Jefferson’s macaroons or Dolly Madison’s pink peppermint ice cream.

Make sure to check out the accompanying Argus Video to see how to make this cake.This is a cake for those times when you are assigned to bring something sweet to a potluck, but you forget until an hour before.Or when people are over hanging out at your house and you desperately need something to feed them.